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Saturday, May 18, 2013

science fact of the day

An insect's nostrils are on the sides of it's body.  They are called spiracles, and there are a bunch of them.

The coolest use of the spiracles is by the Madagascar hissing cockroach, which blows air out of them to make that neat hissing sound.  Get yourself one and make it hiss!  Way cool.




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